10 Recipes for a Halloween feast
1st Jan 2015 Recipes
There's more to Halloween food than sweets. If you’re taking advantage of the opportunity to hold a party, then here are a number of recipes aimed at both children and grown-ups.
For the kids
Chocolate apples
Image via Fab Food for All
We start with a coated apple, but rather than the fairground staple of a toffee apple, these are coated in chocolate.
Wrapped in cellophane, they would make a great gift, and if the children are old enough, they could help with piping on the decoration.
Toxic swamp Halloween smoothie
Image via Fuss Free Flavours
A smoothie suitable for breakfast, or how about as an option to ubiquitous squash at parties, how about this green smoothie with a seasonal edge.
Start the spookiness with breakfast!
Chocolate peanut butter spiderweb brownies
Image via Beaming Baker
Food that the whole family can get involved with making is a great way of spending an afternoon before trick or treating or holding a party.
These vegan brownies are great for decorating with a spiderweb from maple syrup and cocoa powder frosting.
Sushi balls (temarizushi), Halloween style
Image via Chopstick Chronicles
These are such fun. Little balls of sushi rice made into pumpkins, mini-brains, black cats… let your imagination reign.
What a great way of introducing sushi to children. They’ll be fans before you know it!
Butterscotch swirled marshmallow with red velvet hot chocolate
Image via The Flavor Bender
If you’re going to layer flavours, it might as well be done properly. Here, a recipe for red velvet hot chocolate has home-made butterscotch and chocolate marshmallows floating on top.
Before we gave it a go, we didn’t know just how much better home-made marshmallows are compared to ones in a packet.
Read more: 7 Boozy winter warmers
For the grown-ups
Spiced pumpkin punch
Image via Domesticate Me
This is definitely one for adults only. Punches are great for parties—a large bowl serves most of your guests something that’s a lot more interesting than a bland choice of red or white.
Here’s a spiced pumpkin punch with honey, lemon juice, spices, ginger and bourbon, and using ginger beer for some fizziness.
If you can’t find tins of pumpkin puree, it’s straightforward to make by roasting and pureeing a pumpkin.
Pumpkin spice muffins
Image via Mom Noms
As any visitor to coffee chains will tell you, pumpkin spice is everywhere in October. Muffins are a really quick win, so these are great to whip up at short notice.
The big secret to light and fluffy muffins is not to overmix the batter.
Butternut squash, black garlic and blue cheese bake
Image via Kavey Eats
This dish is a double winner. A warming plate of baked vegetables and cheese—always a great combination, with a Halloween twist in the colours of yellow and black.
It is one for the adventurous cook, as the black garlic cheese requires a little inspiration and experimentation around the basic idea of homemade processed cheese, but if it’s a rainy afternoon, what better than to spend the time in the kitchen experimenting?
Pumpkin risotto
Image via Eating by Elaine
Definitely one at the grown-up end of the spectrum, but I love the idea of a rich risotto with exactly the right consistency—not too stiff, but not too soupy, with the grains of rice each plump and fluffy.
Here’s one perfect for this time of year, flavoured with pumpkin.
Pumpkin spice tarts
Image via Mon Petit Four
These are sweet, flaky, explode in the mouth rollover or square covered tarts.
The filling mix sounds like a great starting point for your own tart-based variations. Spice, again, appears here but classic combinations are classic for a reason.
Helen Best-Shaw is a freelance food and travel writer, recipe developer and photographer at Fuss Free Flavours.
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